17. • Ask good questions. What do we not know? What would we
like to know?
• Define and test an hypothesis. Run experiments with data.
• Scrape, munge, transform, and clean data. Instrument.
• Explore Data, Discover Unknowns
• Model Data, Understand Data Relationships
• Create Data Products. Tell Relevant Business Stories.
10 Things [most] Data Scientists Do
39. DATA SCIENCE HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
Mathematics, Statistics, Probability
FOUNDATIONAL
Software Engineering, Machine Learning, ETL, Data Transformation, SQL
FUNCTIONAL
Distributed Computing: Hadoop, Cascading, Spark, GraphLab
SCALABLE
Make an impact, communicate results, identify business
objectives
EMOTIONAL
51. Galvanize provides immersive educational programs in web development and data science.
IMMERSIVE EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMS
Full stack development curriculum provided
over an immersive, six month full-time program
• Strong Test-Driven Development (TDD)/agile
software development environment
• No prior coding experience required
FULL STACK
Data science program (previously Zipfian
academy) taught over 12-week immersive
schedule
• One year accredited program resulting in
Masters degree (Engineering/Big Data)
DATA SCIENCE PROGRAM
53. The Program
• Project-based curriculum with real datasets,
solving actual problems
• Guest lectures from leaders in the field
• Personal mentorship to help students grow
• Capstone project with company partners
• Vast network of hiring partners and events
60. • Working knowledge of programming
• Background in a quantitative
discipline, strong fundamentals
• Comfortable with mathematics and
statistics
• Child-like curiosity
What We Look For
62. • Present a guest lecture or share a data story
• Donate datasets and propose projects
• Sponsor a scholarship
• Attend one of our Hiring Days
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